Improvement in hammers



UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

CORTLAND BALL, OF AUGUSTA, MICHIGAN.

IMPROVEMENT IN HAMMERS.

-this specification, A and C represent the two parts of the tool, which are made of any suit able metal and in the form represented. The piece A is provided with a claw, B, a jaw, F, and with rack-teeth from z to w and from a to c.y That portion of the jaw F near the claw or piece to which the claw is connected is provided with an opening in the direction of the length of piece A, through which opening the piece C is allowed to pass. This opening is made large enough to allow the piece C free play to Work backward and forward in it. The piece C, it will be seen, is provided with ajaw, H, which also forms a hammer, and at its other end it is provided with ascrew-driver, E. The piece C has rack-teeth on it, as seen, from a to a and from x to m', and these rackteeth correspond with lthose on piece A, so that when the two handles are pressed together the parts cannot slip, and answer for a wrench. The part C may be drawn out and used either as a screwdriver or as a hammer.

Having thus fully described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

The within-described tool as an article of manufacture, constructed and used as and for the purpose herein speciiied.

CORTLAND BALL. Witnesses:

J. RAYNER, J. W. LANE. 

